Friday, 16 December 2016

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — He added that al-Baghdadi was detained ten
years ago, and Iraqi forces "have enough information about him to track
him."
"We believe he is now in Biaj, west of Mosul, hiding in an underground
bunker. He changes his location all the time, and he also changes his
appearance," the commander of Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service
told Niqash portal.
Earlier in the day, the US State Department increased the reward for
information on al-Baghdadi to $25 million from $10 million.

In November, the Iraqi armed forces press service said that al-Baghdadi
fled Mosul amid the Iraqi troops' military operation to retake the
northern Iraqi city.
Daesh, which has controlled Mosul since 2014, is outlawed in many
countries including Russia and the United States. On October 17, Iraqi
Prime Minister Haider Abadi announced the start of a military operation
to recapture Mosul from Daesh with the help of airstrikes by the US-led
international coalition.